fortia’s travels in Sweden.

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Thefecond book of the Atlantica was publiflied in 1689. The dedication to CharlesXI. and the preface fill feven pages ; at the end of the book four pages are refervedfor the emendata, as well of the firft as the fecond volume. The table of contents forthe two volumes fills thirty-fix cyphered pages.

It is commonly at the beginning of the fecond volume, that the opinions of differentlearned men on this work of Rudbeck are colleded. In the copy in my poffefiion it til'sthirty-eight pages, fifteen of them in fmall type, in double columns: at the head is afort of preface, figned H. Z. that is to fay, Heitrig, an officer in the guards, afterwardsennobled under the narno of Riddarfliern, a man well verfed in the hiftory and antiqui-ties of Sweden. VP. Salani nota ad Egilli et Afmundi hijloriam. Upfal, 1693, in 4 t0,p. 160.

This cohesion was alfo printed feparately, at Frankfort, in folio, in 1692, under thefollowing title: “ Judicia et teftimonia illuftriuin atque clariffimorum virorum de cele-berrimi Sueonis Olavi Rudbeckii (Senioris) median ac profefforis I'pfalenfis Atlantica,aliifque incomparabilis ingenii Rudbeckiani monumentis. Recufa Francoforti juxta ex-emplar Upfalenfe, anno MDCXCII.” (1692.)

As the advertifement to the printer, at the head of this collection, contains fome lite-rary particularities, I fhall copy the whole of it; it is conceived in the following terms :

“ Admonitiuncula typographica ad lederom benevolum.

ATLANTlCiE RUDBECKIANfE tomus 1. edidus eft Upfalas, anno 1679, in folioSuedice et Latine, una cum peculiari volumine tabularum geographicarum, aliorumquecuriofse antiquitatis monumentorum. Tomus 2 lucem vidit itidem Upfalae, anno 1689, infolio,infertis figurarum tabulisin ipfo operis contextu. Quae hie fequunturjudiciadelaboreherculeo, ATLANTlCiE RESTITUTE aliifque clariffimiRud'oeckii meritis in rempub-licam literariam collatio, per amicum quemdam veritatis in gratiarn antiquarii Adorphii etaliorum quorumdam nobiliflimi Rudbeckiani nominis oforum atque obtredatorum, Upfa-lte Sueonum publicata funt. Prima vice anno 1 681, duabus chartis, in folio. Poftea femeliterumque novo cum audorio et clafle alia teftimoniorum de folertiffiini Rudbeckii in-genio atque laboribus anatomicis, botanicis, phyficis, mathematicis, edita funt ibidem nonmodo feperatino, fed et in fronte tomi fecundi ipfius Atlantic*. Tandem elapfo integrodecennio multo audiora nunc prodeunt, et oc.ulis benevolis ledoris fubjeda vel confenfumejufdem defiderant in exornandis magni Rudbeckii meritiffimis elogiis, vel corredionemexpedant dodam atque candidam, fi forte uno vel aiio loco prae magna eftimatione intarn longinquo incertae atque fallacis antiquitatis itinere aberraverint audoris oculi. Valemi ledlor, et vitam valetudinem que longam Rudbeckio noftro precare, ut reiiquos Atlan-ticse tornos atque ftupendi operis botanici magna volumina, quae multis jam annis fubmanibus ejus fudaverunt, felici aufpicio in publica orbis eruditi commoda edere poffitantequam pedem cymbae Charontis intulerit nunquam nos poftea revifurus elyfius illeAtlas hyperboreorum, &c. Makelos Reipublicse litterb'riae ornamentum.”

Extrads from the fecond volume of the Atlantica, are to be feen in Tentzel. Mo-nalt. Unterred. May and July, 1690. and in UHiJloire des ouvrage des favam par Baf-nage, Dec. 1690. Theoph. Smcerus, otherwife J. G. Schwindelius, reviewed the two firftvolumes. Vochente. Nachrichten von alten und raren Buehern. 1747, in quarto, p. 78,and following.

The third volume of the Atlantica was not publifhed before 1 698 j it was dedicatedto Charles XIII. The dedication, table of contents, and preface, take up thirty-fourpages. The authors of Nova liter, Maris Balthici, fummarily point out the contents intheir journal of the month of December, 1698, and in the Nachrichten von nterk viir-

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